The latest edition of Bradford Beat included a couple of tracks marking Thanksgiving in the US.

Here’s the full playlist:

Great White Underground – Messiah In Hiding
Cranberries – Zombie
Green Day – American Idiot
Venusian Plow – Hanging In The Playground
Tilly and the Wall – Love Riot
Jed’s Blues Band – Dirty Water
Clinic – Miss You
Sentimentalists – I’m Beat
Little Comets – A Little Opus
John Parkes – Fireships
Dinosaur Jr – Watch The Corners
The Seven Inches – Peruvian Poncho
Benjamin Francis Leftwich – In The Open
Loqui – We Drown On Dry Land

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More tracks from the Sturdy Records compilation CD By Hook Or By Crook feature on this week’s Bradford Beat.

The full track listing is:

Eureka Machines – Do Or Die
Dutch Uncles – Fester
Sentimentalists – Apricots
Benjamin Francis Leftwich – In The Open
Racket Ball – When They Walked In
John Parkes – Don’t Be Seventeen
Clinic – Miss You
Downdime – In Space
Richard Marriott – Under Occupation
The Seven Inches – (Let’s Learn Off By Heart) International Dialling Codes
Cave Painting – So Calm
Scaramanga Six – Trouble
This Many Boyfriends – Young Lovers Go Pop

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Here’s the full track listing for this week’s show:

Alt-J – Something Good
The Seven Inches – Peruvian Poncho
Manic Street Preachers – You Love Us
Eureka Machines – Being Good Is Okay But Being Better’s Better
TOYS – When I Was A Toy
Jed’s Blues Band – Dirty Water
Men Only – Summer Girls
Liquid Eyes – (2012 Remix) – Steven Fenton and Siamese Twist
The World Service – Katherine
Sentimentalists – All I Need
The Wind-Up Birds – Two Ambulance Day
Venusian Plow – Hanging In the Playground
Talk To Angels – The Truth Undressed

Don’t forget the By Hook Or By Crook CD launch is at Oporto in Leeds on Sunday, 11 November.

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Listen out for a double whammy of  exciting new sounds from West Yorkshire bands in this week’s edition of Bradford Beat.

The show will be focusing on two new compilation albums – By Hook Or By Crook released by Sturdy Records and 13 for 2012 released by Soundshack.

Bands featured will include TOYS, The World Service, Men Only, Wind-Up Birds and many more.

An all-day luanch gig for By Hook Or By Crook will take place at Oporto in Call Lane, Leeds, on Sunday (11 Nov) from 2pm to 10.30pm.

Tune in to Bradford Beat on Thursday (8 November) from 8pm to 9pm on BCB 106.6FM.

The latest edition of Bradford Beat is a double whammy – a Halloween and Bonfire Night special.
The show is being repeated this Thursday (Nov 1) and you can listen again by clicking here

The full list of ghoulish and firework-themed tracks is here:

Siouxsie and the Banshees – Hallowe’en
The Coral – Skeleton Key
The Seven Inches – A Letter
Nick Toczek – Noo Yawk
Embrace – Fireworks
Catherine Wheel – Flower To Hide
Cocteau Twins – Pink Orange Red
Whiter Than – And So To The Burning
Jim Jones Revue – It’s Got To Be About Me
Bauhaus – Bela Lugosi’s Dead
The Damned – Nasty
The Fall – Frightened

This week we continue our look ahead to a busy autumn gig scene in West Yorkshire (mainly Leeds to be honest) as the students return with a vengeance.

There are some corking gigs at the Cockpit and Brudenell in particular.

Here’s the full tracklisting to last week’s show, which you can listen to again by clicking here

Django Django – Storm
handmadehands – Over The Edge
Coldplay – Yellow
Rodina and the Wolf – What Are You Trying To Do?
Reverend and the Makers – Champion of the World
Terrorvision – Rock Radio
Little Comets – Worry
Everything Everything – Suffragette Suffragette
Post War Glamour Girls – Tremor
Robert Wyatt – A Sunday in Madrid
Sentimentalists – My Mad Mind
The Word – Schoolboy Saint
Wind Up Birds – Popman